2:42 AM,
Apr. 6, 2013

KFC culinary manager Nathan Clayton takes a batch of the brand's new boneless chicken pieces out of the fryer.

Written by

Bruce Horovitz
| USA Today

In an astonishing brand reversal, KFC is about to stake its future on a red-hot concept that might have caused Colonel Sanders to see red: boneless chicken.

KFC, the chicken kingpin desperately in search of a new identity, announced Friday that it will roll out Original Recipe Boneless - which executives insist may be the brand's most important step forward since it was founded more than 60 years ago.

The risky move, three years in the making, is KFC's very public admission that its core product - a big bucket filled with fried chicken legs, thighs and breasts on the bone - may be banished to the ...